American History Flashcards by Abigail Colvin

Sensational reporting, in which writers often exaggerated or even made up stories to attract readers

Yellow Journalism

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Crusading journalists who investigated social conditions and political corruption

Muckraker

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The right to vote

Suffrage

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Laws banning the manufacture, sale and consumption of alcohol

Prohibition

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The idea that the government should own and operate industry for the community as a whole

Socialism

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Information used to affect public opinion; information designed to influence opinion

Propaganda

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German submarines that attacked ships bound for Britain were called

U-boats

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American soldiers during World War I were nicknamed

Doughboys

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The economic and political domination of a strong nation over other weaker nations.

Imperialism

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Began the rebellion against the government of Cuba and it failed

Jose Marti

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Owned the New York Journal

William Randolph Hearst

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Leader of Philippine troops that fought against the Spanish for the US- Filipino revolutionary leader

Emilio Aguinaldo

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He wrote “How the Other Half Lived”

Jacob Riis

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Governor of Wisconsin- made changes that led to the 17th Amendment

Robert La Follette

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First head of US Forestry Service

Gifford Pinchot

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Led the revolution that over threw tsar

Vladimir Lenin

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Anarchist accused, convicted and executed for murder

Sacco and Vanzetti

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Greatest baseball player that ever lived

Babe Ruth

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Taught evolution in Tennessee

John Scopes

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First solo flight across the Atlantic- Spirit of St. Louis

Charles Lindbergh

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Conservation- friend of Theodore Roosevelt- founded the Sierra Club

John Muir

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Ascended the Hawaiian throne

Queen Liliuokalani

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Headed the American Expeditionary Force

John Pershing

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Person who believes that there should be no government

Anarchist

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A temporary agreement to end fighting

Armistice

Idea of Woodrow Wilson- meant to stop another war

League of Nations

One of the causes of our entry into WWI

Zimmerman Telegraph

Passenger ship that the Germans sank

Lusitania

Organization who killed Arch Duke Ferdinand

Black Hand

Policy under which all nations could trade with China

Open Door Policy

Roosevelt's foreign relations policy in which the US would speak softly but carry a big stick

Big Stick Policy

Attempt by government official to make money by leasing land that had government oil reserves to private companies

Teapot Dome

Rebellion in China to try and get foreigners out

Boxer Rebellion

Gave women the right to vote

19th Amendment

What amendment stated that the US Senators would be elected by popular vote/direct election of senators

17th Amendment

Brought American steamships into the harbor of present day Tokyo; took a naval expedition to Japan to negotiate a trade treaty

Mathew Perry

Build a canal across Panama

Hay- Paunceforte Treaty

Led by Teddy Roosevelt and took the hills of Ole Santiago

Rough Riders

It was blown up in harbor of Canvana

U. S. S. Maine

Allowed us to pay income tax

Underwood Tariff

The American Midwest during the Depression

Dustbowl

Where homeless people lived during the Depression

Hoovervilles

Lived in hobo jungles and road the rails

Hobos

When the bank takes your property bc you can't pay for it

Foreclosure

President FDR's radio chats with the American people

Fireside chats

Welded instead of riveted

Liberty Ships

Policy that was followed by European leader with Hitler until he attacked Poland- the giving into demands

Appeasement

Lightning war

Blitzkrieg

The killing of 6 million Jews and other minorities by the Germans

Holocaust

Paid back the cost plus a bonus if produced quickly

Cost- plus system

When cargo or passengers are escorted by battle ships

Convoy System

Lessening the amount of certain things that were available to support the war

Rationing

Dirt wall around a field

Hedgerow

Americans planted these to conserve good

Victory Garden

Last German offensive in WW2

Battle of the Bulge

Led the American 3rd army in North Africa and the Battle of the Bulge

George Patton

Supreme leader of the Allied forces in Europe

Dwight Eisenhower

Led the British forces in Europe and North Africa

Bernard Montgomery

Prime minister of Britain

Winston Churchill

Leader of Germany during WW2

Adolf Hitler

Leader of Italy during WW2

Benito Mussolini

Leader of Russia during WW2

Joseph Stalin

First woman in the cabinet

Frances Perkins

President during WW2- passed the New Deal

FDR

Executed for war crimes

Hideki Tojo

Led the group of scientist who helped build the bomb

Robert Oppenheimer

Head of Japanese navy

Yamamoto

Head of the land forced for the US in the Asian theater

Douglas MacArthur

Head of the naval forces in the US in the Asian theater

Chester Nimitz

Photographer during the Depression of the homeless

Dorothea Lange

Leader of the rebellion who overthrew Spain's government

Francisco Franco

Desert fox

Irwin Rommel

A system of manufacturing adopted by Henry Ford which divided operations into simple tasks that unskilled workers could do

Assembly line

Buying a stock by paying only a fraction of the stock price and borrowing the rest

Margin

President Harding's secretary of the interior secretly allowed private interest to lease lands containing US Navy oil reserves causing a scandal

Teapot Dome

A long period of rising stock prices

Bull Market

A period of falling stock prices

Bear Market

The day the stock market crashed

Black Tuesday

Veterans marched on Washington to receive their bonuses

Bonus Army

15 bills passed by FDR in his first 100 days in office

New Deal

Set up a benefit for the elderly and disabled

Social Security Act

Separated investment banks from commercial banks

Glass-Stegall Act

Anti communist- extreme authorian government

Fascism

Forced rejoining of German and Austria

Anschluss

One of the new political parties to ride during the political and economic chaos in Germany after WW1 was the socialist German workers party known as

Nazi Party

When Hitler tried to take over the government of Munich

Beer Hall Putsch

Written by Hitler when in prison- my struggle- ideas why Germany had problems

Mein Kampf

Destruction of Jewish business, a night of anti-Jewish violence

Kristallnacht

String of concrete bunkers built along the French/German border

Maginot Line

Took away citizenship from the Jews

Nuremberg Laws

Where the final solution was decided

Wan see Conference

Icon for the women on the war

Rosie the Riveter

Black pilots aka Red Tails

Tuskegee Airmen

Turning point of the war in Europe

Stalingrad

Code name for the invasion of France

Operation Overlord

To help farmers in the Southwest overcome the labor shortage, the government introduced

Bracero Program

Where the German people were tried for the crimes against humanity

Nuremberg Trials

Plane that dropped the first atomic bomb

Enola Gay

The city where the first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan

Hiroshima

Japanese pilots deliberately crashing their planes into American ships, killing themselves

Kamikaze

Code name for the American program to build an atomic bomb

ManHattan Project

When 78,000 prisoners of war were forced to march 65 miles to a Japanese prison camp

Bataan Death March